1. Grace Fellowship Church Pastor/Teacher Jim Rickard www.GraceDoctrine.org Tuesday, June 5, 2012

2. Doxology Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.— Amen.

3. John 17 The Great High Priestly Prayer of our Lord!

4. John 17:20-26 Jesus Prays for the Church!

5. John 17:23, “I (Jesus Christ) in the sphere of them (Church Age believers) and You (God the Father) in the sphere of Me, in order that they may be perfected in unity (with God), so that the world (unbelievers) would know that You sent Me and You loved them even as You loved Me.”

6. Personal Love of God the Father toward the Believer

7. G. Personal Love is the basis for our Father’s Discipline.

8. 12. The Parental Analogy of Divine Discipline:

9. a. If you as a parent have never spanked your child, you have failed! Children benefit from spanking, and they always feel better when it is over.

10. Prov 13:24, “He who withholds his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him diligently.”

11. b. As long as we live on this earth, we continue to have an Old Sin Nature. We will never be free from sin; no one is perfect, Rom 3:23.

12. Rom 3:23, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

13. When we, through our own bad decisions, put ourselves in a jam, we hate ourselves, whether we know it or not. We are miserable under the Law of Volitional Responsibility.

14. c. Therefore, God in grace provides D.d. motivated by love. Prov 3:12, “For whom the Lord loves He judges by punitive action; therefore, like a father to a son in whom He delights.”

15. d. Being fair and loving to your children means you will reward and bless them on certain occasions, and at other times discipline them. 1 Cor 3:10-15; Heb 12:4-11

16. e. D.d. to the believer is parental training in the Royal Family of God designed to inculcate humility and true objectivity for life.

17. f. D.d. teaches us to be oriented to what we really are. The fact that we receive discipline tells us we are divorced from reality.

18. g. When the believer refuses to learn from Bible doctrine, D.d. teaches you the hard way what you resist.

19. h. All of us must learn certain things the hard way through D.d.

20. Rev 3:19, “Those whom I love (PHILEO), I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.”

21. i. Learning the easy way is through the communication of Bible doctrine from your own right Pastor ‑ Teacher, which requires three things.

22. 1) Filling of the Holy Spirit. 2) Impersonal love, for objectivity. 3) Enforced and genuine humility.

23. j. If you cannot learn from humility, you learn from hurting which has limited objectives; to wake you up and motivate your recovery.

24. k. You must recover from the cosmic system to live inside of GPS. Only inside GPS are logistical grace provisions exploited to the glory of God and momentum.

25. l. The cosmic believer who does not learn from D.d. is eventually removed from this life under painful circumstances under the S.U.D.

26. m. When the believer uses rebound, God exercises one of three options, where the suffering is changed from discipline to blessing.

27. 1) The removal of all disciplinary suffering.

28. 1) The removal of all disciplinary suffering. 2) Discipline suffering is diminished, but is now designed for blessing. 1 Cor 10:13

29. 1 Cor 10:13, “No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.”

30. 3) Disciplinary suffering continues at the same intensity, because you can bear it, but is now designed for blessing. Job 5:17-18

31. Job 5:17 ‑ 18, “Behold, how happy is the man whom God reproves, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty. 18For He inflicts pain, and gives relief; He wounds (intensive discipline), and His hands also heal.”

32. n. In addition to the three categories of D.d., 1 Cor 11:28-32, there is a category called “Triple ‑ Compound Divine Discipline”.

33. 1) This begins when you become involved in mental attitude sins as motivation for sins of the tongue.

34. 2) Bad decisions to commit verbal sins towards others brings about this worst category of D.d.

35. Mat 7:1 ‑ 2, “Do not judge so that you will not be judged. 2 For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.”

36. 3) You receive triple discipline for:

37. 3) You receive triple discipline for: a) The verbal sin: gossip, judging, maligning, slandering.

38. b) The mental attitude sin that motivated the verbal sin.

39. b) The mental attitude sin that motivated the verbal sin. c) Every sin mentioned, whether true or not, is put on you.

40. Psa 119:75, “I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.”

41. Grace Fellowship Church Tuesday, June 5, 2012 Tape # 12-063 Personal Love of God the Father Towards the Believer ~ Divine Discipline Great High Priestly Prayer, Part 111 John 17:23; Job 5:17-18; Mat 7:1-2; Heb 12:4-11 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2012